Our Missionaries
Our missionaries are normal people from all walks of life who have dedicated their lives to serving and following Jesus wherever He calls them. Want to meet them? Check out our Missionary Directory.
Ministry Description
We are Missionaries with Word of Life Nicaragua and for 5 years we served in English4Life (E4L). E4L was a four-purpose program: Evangelism, Discipleship, a school of English as a Second Language (ESL) and ministry training center. At the end of 2021, God led our current Field Director to start a new program called CCM (Ministry Training Center) and its purpose is to train christian youth in Evangelism and Discipleship.
CCM is an internship program, students come and live in Word of Life campus all week for 8 months. Every weekend they go back home to serve in their local church. And for 8 months we train them in Bible study, evangelism, discipleship, Bible Club philosophy and they also participate in all of our main activities as part of the staff, this way they are also involved in a practical way in our ministry to reach youth with the Gospel of Jesus. Starting this 2023, I (Karl) will be in charge of the Studies Department. My job will be to ensure a high-quality curriculum for our group of students, provide printed materials for them, find good teachers and make a yearly class schedule. My wife, Alba, will spend more time at home with our children but she will support me in this ministry as well.
About Karl
My name is Karl Pérez. I was born in Managua, Nicaragua. My family and teachers at my school talked to me about God ever since I was a little boy. I used to believe that I would be saved by my good works.
In February of 2009 I was invited to attend the youth group of a Baptist church called Encuentro con Cristo (Encounter with Christ). I began to learn a lot from the Bible study in the book of Romans and realized that my beliefs were wrong, but didn't understand everything yet. On September 2009, I attended an evangelistic outreach organized by Word of Life Nicaragua). God was already working in my life, and that day, Word of Life Nicaragua's founder, Guillermo Aguilar shared the Gospel of Jesus. I realized that I was not saved and decided to believe in Jesus as my savior. This is also my deepest desire for you, if you are not sure of your Salvation, to believe in Jesus the son of God as your one and only Savior, “…for whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16b
During Word Of Life's summer camp in 2011, serving as part of the staff, God called me to become a full-time missionary. After this, I prayed for an opportunity to go to the Bible Institute in Argentina to prepare myself and serve God in a better way. He opened that door in 2013 and I was able to study in Argentina for 3 years, after our second year in the B.I., Alba and I got married in Nicaragua, and decided to serve the Lord together as a family. We are now in Nicaragua serving as full time missionaries with Word of Life.
About Alba
I was born on December 18th, in a Catholic Family. I accepted Jesus as my personal Savior in 2006, my cousin Jader shared the gospel with me while he was studying at the Word of Life Bible Institute in Argentina. I started attending a church occasionally, I was baptized in that same year, but I had not begun to grow spiritually. At the beginning of 2010, I experienced very hard situations in my life which God used to show me that despite being his daughter, I still found it difficult to trust him in many areas. That year my cousin was a WOL Missionary in Nicaragua and invited me to participate in ministry activities. A Word of Life missionary started a discipleship with me and helped me to find a new church, and that's where I met Karl. In January 2011, in summer camp I consecrated my life to the Lord, and I also promised the Lord to prepare myself to serve Him in a better way.
So, in 2013, after many weeks of fear and even doubting my calling to serve God full time, I finally decided to take that first step of faith and went to study the Bible in Argentina. It was during my first year studying there that the Lord confirmed my calling as a full-time missionary. My desire is to work in the lives of youth, and to bless young people not only from our church, but from all the churches working with Word Life through the Bible Club programs.
Life Verse
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. Acts 20:28
